Dec. 12/13, 2014, The Huntington Library and Gardens: Ahmanson Room, Brody Botanical Center
In celebration of famous anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius’s 500th anniversary, the conference brings together rare book collectors, curators, art and cultural historians, and physicians to explore the changing concepts of the human body and visualizations of knowledge in illustrated medical treatises from the early Renaissance to the 17th century.